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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages 1060-1066Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00178
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- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [55184-DNI6]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [F-1885]
- University of Texas at Austin
- Dorothy B. Banks Fellowship Program
- National Science Foundation [ECCS-1542202]
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Organic semiconductors (OSCs) constitute an attractive platform for optoelectronics design due to the ease of their processability and chemically tunable properties. Incorporating OSCs into electrical circuits requires forming junctions between them and other materials, yet the change in dielectric properties about these junctions can strongly perturb the electronic structure of the OSC. Here we adapt an interface-selective optical technique, electronic sum frequency generation (ESFG), to the study of a model OSC thin-film system, copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) deposited on SiO2. We find that by modeling the thickness dependence of our measured spectra, we can identify changes in CuPc's electronic density of states at both its buried interface with SiO2 and air-exposed surface. Our work demonstrates that ESFG can be used to noninvasively probe the interfacial electronic structure of optically thick OSC films, indicating that it can be used for the study of OSC-based optoelectronics in situ.
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